Cast: Sara Allgood

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Charles Boyer · Jennifer Jones · Peter Lawford · Helen Walker

Synopsis Czech author Adam Belinski has escaped from the Nazis, taking refuge at the country home of the rich, snobbish English Carmel family. The maid is Cluny Brown, who is also a bit of a plumber. Adam and Cluny become friends....

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Orson Welles · Joan Fontaine · Margaret O'Brien · Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis A Love Story Every Woman Would Die a Thousand Deaths to Live! Small plain and poor Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life Jane can't help but...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Dorothy McGuire · George Brent · Kent Smith · Ethel Barrymore

Synopsis Beautiful young mute Helen is a domestic worker for old ailing Mrs. Warren. Mrs. Warren's two sons, Albert (a professor) and womanizing impudent Steven, also live in the Warren mansion. Mrs. Warren becomes concerned for Helen's safety when a rash...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Ingrid Bergman · Lana Turner · Donald Crisp

Synopsis Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's faincee's father.

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Joan Fontaine · Patric Knowles · Herbert Marshall · Richard Ney

Synopsis In 1909, the beautiful but amoral British belle Ivy Lexton meets older, rich Miles Rushworth; undeterred by the prior claims of her husband Jervis and lover Roger, she goes after Miles and has no trouble fascinating him, but oddly enough...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast George Sanders · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Ella Raines · Sara Allgood

Synopsis Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · George Montgomery · Lynne Overman

Synopsis Sassy '20s Chicago dance hall girl Roxie (Rogers) decides to take the fall when hubby (Chandler) murders a man (She sees it as a publicity boost to her career). Slick lawyer Billy Flynn (Menjou) knows he can get the tootsie...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anny Ondra · John Longden · Sara Allgood · Charles Paton

Synopsis Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defence when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal who tries to blackmail her....

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Vivien Leigh · Laurence Olivier · Alan Mowbray · Sara Allgood

Synopsis Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn't cut the grade with London society but she gets along well with the Queen...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Paulette Goddard · Ray Milland · Patric Knowles · Reginald Owen

Synopsis London, 1783: Kitty, a saucy wench of the slums, meets the painter Gainsborough by stealing his shoes. He paints her as an "anonymous lady" who excites the interest of his noble friends, notably penniless Sir Hugh Marcy, who schemes to...

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Loretta Young · Robert Cummings · Wendell Corey · Sam Jaffe

Direction John Brahm

Cast Merle Oberon · George Sanders · Laird Cregar · Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis Mrs. Bonting manages to keep up appearances, but little more than that, these days. Though Mr. Bonting is unhappy over the idea of letting rooms, it seems an answer to a prayer when a peculiar young man named Mr. Slade...

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Robert Walker · Ava Gardner · Dick Haymes · Eve Arden

Synopsis A window dresser in a department store feels a strange attraction to a mannequin in the display. One night he impulsively kisses her; she comes to life and reveals herself to be Venus, the goddess of love.

Direction Julien Duvivier

Cast Merle Oberon · Edna May Oliver · Alan Marshal · Joseph Cotten

Synopsis Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy old woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Clifton Webb · Jeanne Crain · Myrna Loy · Betty Lynn

Synopsis "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the...

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Tommy Dorsey · Jimmy Dorsey · Janet Blair · Paul Whiteman

Synopsis The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on...

Direction Dudley Nichols

Cast Rosalind Russell · Michael Redgrave · Raymond Massey · Kirk Douglas

Synopsis Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). But Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam Brant, has become Christine's lover,...

Direction Edward A. Blatt

Cast John Garfield · Paul Henreid · Sydney Greenstreet · Eleanor Parker

Synopsis Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will deliver each of them either to heaven or hell. Their lives and stories are revealed as they individually begin to realize where...

Direction Walter Lang

Cast Betty Grable · Dan Dailey · Mona Freeman · Connie Marshall

Synopsis In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then...

Direction Ian Dalrymple · Victor Saville

Cast Vivien Leigh · Rex Harrison · Cecil Parker · Sara Allgood

Synopsis Frank Burdon is a new reporter on a small-town Scottish paper. He's told to interview local politician William Gow, then left in charge of the paper overnight. He sees Gow being high-handed to a woman who can't afford to license...